He said so far, 14 AES cameras had been installed at traffic accident black spots throughout the country.

"The notorious black spots were identified by the police, and the system is not meant to benefit AES concessionaires.

"When
we installed the cameras, we advertised the locations in all media -
Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese, English, Tamil. We are not hiding the camera
positions," he told a news conference here Wednesday.

He said the
AES was introduced out of the Government's sense of responsibility in
an effort to reduce road accidents by getting tough with speed hogs and
red light beaters.

Kong said he had also received many proposals
from the public to find the best mechanism to address other traffic
offences such as overtaking on double lines, overtaking from the left
lane, and illegal parking.

Hence, he said community leaders,
non-governmental organisations and politicians should support and not
oppose the AES implementation for political gain.

For example,
Kong said the Consumers Association of Penang supported the
implementation of AES while the Penang government was against it.

On
criticism in some blog postings that it was not necessary to fix AES
cameras in areas where the speed limit is only between 30 kmph and 70
kmph, he said there were black spots identified by the police.

Other
locations for AES cameras will be determined by a study carried out by
the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research, he said, adding that
AES concessionaires were also required to get approvals from the Public
Works Department Works (federal roads), the state authorities (state
roads) and also highway concessionaire (highways). - Bernama